Welcome to Bee Week!

Hi there. We've been buzzing around, trying (and often failing) to avoid bee puns, as we gear up to bring you Bee Week.

That’s right, it’s an entire week devoted to those handsome, majestic, vital-to-our-survival little honey-makers. And we’re going to do more than just look at some bee dance GIFs and indulge in Blind Melon nostalgia — bees are serious business.

Over the next five days, we’ll be running stories about counterfeit honey smuggled in from China (better known as honey laundering), a look at beekeepers in Berlin, how one man’s courtcase against the EPA could determine the course of beekeeping in the U.S., legal advice for would-be urban beekeepers, and lots, lots more.